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By Jen St. Denis StarMetro Vancouver Mon., Dec. 10, 2018 VANCOUVER—On a quiet street on Vancouver’s west side sits a two-bedroom house on a corner lot. It’s a spacious but not ostentatious family house in the same style as countless others built over the past two decades. The $5.6-million home on 28th Ave. features visible security cameras but was still the target of an as-yet-unexplained break-in over the weekend. Monday afternoon saw two private security guards stationed in the Dunbar home’s front yard, their eyes hidden by sunglasses as they pretended not to notice the media set up across the street. This six-bedroom house could soon be a jail cell for the chief financial officer of one of China’s biggest companies. Meng Wanzhou was arrested on Dec. 1 at Vancouver International Airport as she transferred planes on her way from Hong Kong to Mexico. The arrest came after U.S. authorities requested Canada extradite her to face … [Read more...] about This Vancouver home could become Huawei exec’s $5.6-million prison

By William K. Rashbaum The New York Times Ben Protess Maggie Haberman Sun., Aug. 19, 2018 NEW YORK—Federal authorities investigating whether President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, committed bank and tax fraud have zeroed in on well over $20 million in loans obtained by taxi businesses that he and his family own, according to people familiar with the matter. Investigators are also examining whether Cohen violated campaign finance or other laws by helping to arrange financial deals to secure the silence of women who said they had affairs with Trump. The inquiry has entered the final stage and prosecutors are considering filing charges by the end of August, two of the people said. Any criminal charges against Cohen would deal a significant blow to the president. Cohen worked for the president’s company, the Trump Organization, for more than a decade. He was one of Trump’s most loyal and visible aides … [Read more...] about Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-lawyer, is being investigated for $20 million bank fraud

SINGAPORE: She was threatened at knifepoint in her own flat by her husband, after a quarrel that escalated. Even police intervention could not guarantee her safety if she remained.Madam Tamilvaannii already had obtained a Personal Protection Order against her abusive husband – it allowed the couple to live in the same home but separate rooms. Still, officers responding to her call advised her to leave for her own good.“What if he stabs me to death after the police leave?” she thought to herself.So in the middle of the night, she and her 18-year-old daughter Vinothinnii found themselves on the streets.That was when Mdm Vaannii saw the true value of being a homeowner in a new light: It wasn’t just a roof over her head, or a place to decorate as she liked.It was about having a haven where nobody could turf her or her children out. Said the 46-year-old: I felt the pain of (having to leave). I saw that I must have my own home.But it was to take eight years of … [Read more...] about Home, truly after 8 years: A divorced mother’s quest for security

caption A girl stands at a barbed wire fence as she waits to try to cross into Colombia from Urena, Venezuela, December 18, 2016. source Thomson Reuters Protracted political, economic, and humanitarian crises in Venezuela have spurred mass migration, with Venezuelans from across the social spectrum fleeing for neighboring Brazil and Colombia, to other countries in the region like Chile or Peru, and as far away as the US and Spain. To escape what they face at home, many Venezuelans endure more hardship abroad, sacrificing their meager savings for transportation to places where, in part because a lack of documentation, they struggle to find work, lodging, and legal status – challenges exacerbated by discrimination and xenophobia. Geoff Ramsey, the associate for Venezuela at Washington, DC-based research and advocacy group the Washington Office on Latin America, spent April inside Venezuela and on the country’s borders with Brazil and Colombia, meeting with … [Read more...] about ‘Different shades of utter resignation’: Venezuelans fleeing hardship at home are finding more struggles abroad

By Jennifer Pagliaro City Hall Bureau Emily Mathieu Affordable Housing Reporter Thu., May 17, 2018 Edna Rose is exhausted. The great-grandmother is piling everything she owns into cardboard boxes while a large white moving truck parks outside next to her beloved garden where decades ago she planted peach and nectarine trees, then later flowers in honour of family. A cast-iron skillet she brought with her from Jamaica almost 40 years ago and a worn metal pot good for making rice and peas for a crowd go into a box. So does a bottle of white wine from her son’s wedding — never opened in the house of a God-fearing Mormon — and many framed photos of her “great-grands.” The 76-year-old then takes a step up a wobbly ladder near the ground-floor window to pull down lacy drapes that have yellowed in the sun. “I am climbing Jacob’s Ladder,” Rose says as she inches her way to the top. Article Continued … [Read more...] about This great-grandmother was forced from her home of 31 years. Hers is the face of a broken public housing system